Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Donald Trump Rewards Populist Base with Tax Cuts for the Rich!

So, Donald Trump "resets" by joining The Club for Growth, who can't stand him. Go figure. (You think he needs cash for his campaign? Hmm...)

Maybe Monopoly game references are passé, but it's weird that when
we were kids we were taught to be greedy, money-grubbing
bastards.

Maybe the "poorly educated" working-class whites don't totally get that the GOP became a closed-loop mafia that fed money to the elite donor class so they'd toss them scraps in return, but you'd think they'd go WTF when Trump's jobs plan amounts to massive tax cuts for our super-wealthy corporate overlords. But you'd be wrong:

Donald Trump had an opportunity to be a different kind of
Republican. Trump openly disdained traditional conservative elites —
making a populist case that resonated with working-class white voters.
He won the Republican nomination with hardly any support from
conservative intellectuals.

But now, he appears to have decided that their ideas aren’t so bad after all.

"All Hillary Clinton has to offer is more of the same:
more taxes, more regulations, more bureaucrats, more restrictions on
American energy and American production," Trump said Monday in an
economic speech delivered in Detroit. Of course, this critique goes both
ways: With the important exception of trade, Trump’s economic agenda is
little different from the one Mitt Romney ran on in 2012.

Trump’s speech contained a number of ideas that have
become staples of conservative thinking, including repealing the estate
tax or reducing the number of regulations in the federal register. The
working-class voters who seem most attracted to Trump don’t particularly
benefit from many of these ideas.

Let's see: Trump becomes a white working-class hero -- in spite of the fact that he's stinking rich -- and then turns around and acts like Mitt Romney when it comes to dispensing the spoils.

Hey, white working class: He never -- as in NEVER -- gave a shit about you. NEVER. Of course, go ahead and vote for him because Hillary's a bitch or something.

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Happily residing in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Calvin has lived in the Philippines, the Netherlands, and the aforementioned Japan, as well as in Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and many different towns in California, including, of all places, the Mojave Desert.

Calvin, you may note quickly, is a liberal progressive who doesn't think being called a socialist is all that bad, especially since he sort of would like living in Denmark if it weren't so cold. He blogs because he can.